[yomlica8]

Given that many services do not accept VoIP numbers now and some even reject prepaid mobile numbers I'm not sure how long a service like this would work. Although maybe if Apple made it a default perhaps it couldn't be blocked like with their private relay or iCloud hidden emails.

[Roark66]

Seriously? Who rejects prepaid numbers? I haven't had a contract phone number in 20 years.

[thecal]

I can't complete opening an account with Capital One because I have prepaid wireless. When talking to customer service, they said this happens and there's no fix. Ubisoft Connect (their Steam competitor) also rejects it.

[araes]

From personal experience, if you can in your area, ditch em. There's a bunch of banks and brokers who will not require a permanent phone if you have a physical address or similar. As long as you can prove habitation and/or that you're a real person, there's almost no justification. Mine's fine with me rarely even having a functional phone (I top up pre-pays only when I need them. Most months nobody I care about directly calls me.)

[yomlica8]

It was a F2P first person shooter that uses phone numbers for verification. CoD I believe, but it looks like blizzard does it as well for battle.net.

I remember it because before that I assumed they had no way to determine how the phone number is purchased, but I think they can just blacklist prepaid providers.